Talk:lute

Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation
What does "probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation" mean? 173.89.236.187 05:37, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * It means that it comes from Arabic العُود, where al-‘ūd is the Modern Standard Arabic pronunciation, but in this case, it was borrowed in Al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain, where the pronunciation in Andalusi Arabic was probably more like /lʕawd/ or /lʕut/. —Stephen (Talk) 06:43, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Missing meaning
There's another meaning in engineering which isn't listed here. Oxford Reference has it at. AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 15:25, 30 November 2022 (UTC)